Pretty soon I might have to create a Bruin of the Week poll without Bruins star forward Tyler Seguin. Because it doesn’t look like the second-year player plans on tailing off long enough to not be Boston’s best player over any seven-day period.

The Bruins’ leading scorer was again voted as the Bruin of the Week by readers of TheBruinsBlog.net.

Who should be the Bruin of the Week?

Tyler Seguin (76%, 138 Votes)

Brad Marchand (13%, 23 Votes)

Johnny Boychuk (8%, 15 Votes)

Joe Corvo (3%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 181

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This honor comes on the same day the NHL picked Seguin as its First Star of the week. But no one knows how those stars get picked.

Seguin leads the Bruins with 20 points and 11 goals. Amazingly, he also leads the NHL with a plus-14 rating. After he was left off the All-Star ballot last week, Seguin made sure that when it comes time to pick the reserves for that contest he’s going to be hard to leave out.

I would take Corvo in a heartbeat over Kaberle. I do think he is capable of better play in his own end, however. I don’t expect him to give the bone-crunching checks of Chara, Sidenberg, or Boychuk, but I do expect him to have better positional play similar to Ference. He does have a good shot and appears to be a good passer. Since you remember Coffey, you know that he rarely killed penalties as well.

I wish sometimes defensive players would get a little more recognition on this blog. Glad to see two defenseman’s names on the ballot.

he has been the best player on the ice since game 1 of the season. it isn’t even close. it seems like there hasn’t been a shift of his that the bruins didn’t at least get a scoring chance. not only is he better than kessel but better than hall too.

B16 – Yes yes… I understand. When I bought my pick-up I didn’t expect it to corner hair-pins going 60 either. That doesn’t mean he didn’t have a great week or that he isn’t blossoming in the very area we traded for him to improve on this team. Paul Coffey wasn’t the baddest dude on the back-end either, but I’d still pick him for my pond hockey team.

I agree with Bruins16 on Corvo. A good puck mover, but not as good battling for the puck. He does make the effort. Still, way better than Kaberle. Watched him for a few games this year – and he looks weaker than last year.

You need to watch Corvo’s play in front of the net and his positioning defensively. As well, keep track of the number of times he wins battles along the boards. There is a reason why he is rarely on the penalty kill.